School Violence

Plot By Kids Against Teacher Disturbing

Third-graders in Georgia plotting to attack their teacher with a broken steak knife, handcuffs and duct tape wouldn't have been funny even as an April Fools Day prank. What's worse is that it wasn't.

The youngsters actually planned to carry out their devious scheme, which was stopped when somebody thankfully snitched. This is an isolated incident. But adults everywhere should be alarmed that children so young would plot to harm a teacher over something as simple as telling a kid not to stand in a chair.

It's another reminder that many of our children are conceiving and engaging in violence, and at younger ages. And a warning that, if such vicious tendencies aren't curtailed, nobody is safe, not even in elementary school.